Producers wary of 'Hawaii Five-O' remake

Hawaii Five-O producer Roberto Orci has admitted that he and his partner Alex Kurtzman were initially uncertain about being involved with the show.

The pair previously worked on the recent Star Trek film, as well as the Transformers movie series.

Orci revealed to IGN that he and Kurtzman had been reluctant to board another remake "because we thought, well, we don't want to be known as 'reboot guys'".

He explained that executive producer Peter Lenkov eventually convinced them to join the update.

"[He] pitched us a great story… and such a great kind of paradigm for the show and how to really get into the characters that he really talked us into it. And then we thought, 'This could be really fun'."

Orci also confessed that '80s action movies such as Lethal Weapon and 48 Hours were the inspiration for the tone of the new show.

"Everyone always tries to do the action buddy [cop] thing with real stakes and it's actually deceptively hard. This is our opportunity to take a stab at that kind of a classic tone, where the violence is real, but you can still have a lot of fun with it. It doesn't have to be totally grim, you know?"

Hawaii Five-O - starring Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan - will premiere on CBS in the fall. Bravo recently acquired the rights to air the show in the UK.